MAGO ACADEMY

Mago Academy (alias Goddess Hedge School) is a non-profit organization that promotes biophilic-knowledge, connection, and peace to the world community of women and men.

Founder/Executive DirectorDr. Helen Hye-Sook Hwang

Helen Hwang is a scholar, teacher, and activist for Goddess Feminism and World Peace. Hwang earned an M.A. and a Ph.D. degree in Women’s Studies in Religion (Claremont Graduate University, CA) and currently completing her second M.A. degree in East Asian Studies at UCLA. She has reconstructed Magoism, a pan-East Asian gynocentric cultural matrix that venerates Mago, the Great Goddess of East Asia. Hwang advocates Magoism as a historical framework in which women of the world can realize alliances across differences. Previously, she was a member of Maryknoll Sisters in Korea, New York, and the Philippines. Encountering Mary Daly’s Radical Feminism, she pursued her graduate studies. Hwang has published many articles in English and Korean and gives lectures, while teaching religions and feminisms at the university level in the U.S.

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Research and Project Advisers

WenniferA. Lin, Ph.D. (USA/Taiwan)

Glenys Livingston, Ph.D. (Australia)

Luciana Percovich (Italy)

Marla J. Selvidge, Ph.D. (USA)

Karen Jo Torjesen, Ph.D. (USA)

Lydia Ruyle (USA)

Trista Hendren (USA)

Leslene della Madre (USA)

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Editors and Editorial Advisers for Return to Mago (Webzine) and Magowikidary (Online Library)